cloth or paper bags

[kirbylux77]

Nar - You say some HEPA Cloth bags can be shaken out & re-used?!?! Ok, which brand & model of vacuum bags are we talking about here? I tried to do that once a while back, but I found that the dust gets separated from the dirt inside the bag, & the dust tends to get trapped in the layers of the material. No matter how much you shake the dirt out, you're NOT getting that fine dust out of the bag layers.

David - Not necessarily. It all depends what type of dirt your vacuum picks up to begin with. For example, a household with a dog & cat with lots of pet hair could easily use a paper micro-filtration bag & use it till it's packed to the brim with dirt, since human & pet hair doesn't clog the pores of the bag & it's just bulky. In that instance, you wouldn't get any longer life by using a HEPA Cloth bag. My ex-boyfriend, Craig, has a Kenmore Whispertone canister I sold him....he has a black lab & lots of pet hair, & he uses the yellow Kenmore 5055 bags in it, & he does just fine.

Rob

 

[sebo_fan]

"Nar - You say some HEPA Cloth bags can be shaken out & re-used?!?! Ok, which brand & model of vacuum bags are we talking about here?"

SEBO of course. The top fill ones are easy enough to turn inside out if you have patience. Even the D series bags can be turned inside out easily enough, brushed clean if you don't want to WASH and allow the bag to dry.

I've done the shaking out, turning inside and brush clean once and the bag filled again with very little wastage. It can be reused once but after that you're looking at a very clogged bag unless of course you do the wash and dry option - but even then I find the bag isn't as good as a fresh one.

Actually pet hair can impact filtration layers - just because you can't see it doesn't mean it isn't there. I used to find that the layers on my Hoover paper bags would show signs of pet hair oil seeping through the layers as well as black dots which I can only assume is dirt within pet hair.

 

[sebo4me]

You are a true Scot Nar
It's a messy business emptying a bag, you talk about emptying a dyson be being messy it's not as messy as emptying a bag that's not meant to be reusable. The Sebo bags are quite cheap to buy so I'd rather just dispose of them when full.

 

[turbo500]

Yeh, I'm not one for reusing bags. If I wanted to get covered in dust, cough my lungs out and make my eyes itch and water execessively, I'd just buy a single cyclone Vax. The whole point of bags, for me anyway, is that I never come into contact with the dirt I've vacuumed up.

 

[sebo4me]

Yes very true.

 

[sebo_fan]

Oh of course there is that option, Sebo4Me but in the case of the D2 vac and countless other SEBO vacs brand new before they hit the UK market properly, sometimes when you have to get by on ONE bag it helps to know by experimenting before the dust bags are actually available to buy.

Lets not forget our vintage fans of classic Hoover uprights have had options to reuse the paper dust bag. The re-use formula is not a new fad.

 

[n0oxy]

reusing bags

Personally I would not reuse bags, the whole idea of bags is to avoid contact with the dirt you clean up. I think the backpack vacuums I am getting this week have a reusable bag option, but I would just assume relace it when it's full. I actually just replaced the bag in my vacumaid garage vac pro, the bag wasn't full but the exhaust was definitely starting to have a dusty smell to it. Replacing the bag solved that completely. That's the best thing about bagged vacuums, when you replace the bag, you reset your main filter.

 

[sebo_fan]

Um well you don’t reset the main filter if you have a clean air vac that has another filter on board unless that filter is constantly replaced. The main filter still has to cope with whatever has been lined down the hose or dust channel. Main filters that can be replaced give the vacuum the best chance of being purged rather than washed and reused in my experience.

 

[gottahaveahoove]

Cloth or paper

paper or plastic, upright or canister Hepa or paper, chocolate or vanilla, Donald or Hillary...these choices will now stay with us I guess. Just like who really killed John F. Kennedy: we'll just never know.

 

[vac-o-matic]

Reusing a DISPOSABLE bag brings back memories of my years at the Oreck store. Once in awhile, someone would bring one in for a tune-up, and before they left, I would give the machine a once over. I always knew what the case was when I opened the outer bag and found it and the disposable(paper) bag filthy. My response was, "that'll be an extra $20. to wash the outer bag, because more than likely, I was the one that was going to have to do it! We didn't have a washer so the bags had to be hand washed. YUCK! [this post was last edited: 1/20/2016-19:55]

 

[n0oxy]

backpack vacuum bag

Well, I got my first backpack vacuum, the proteam super coach. It actually came with a paper bag installed along with a spare. I'm debating whether to go ahead and use those two bags and then get some cloth ones, or just toss the paper bags and go for the cloth ones right away. The suction is definitely good, but I'm sure the cloth bags would provide much better air flow.

 

[sebo_fan]

Keep the paper bags you get any way. I have a load of old Sebo paper dust bags which I will still use; they still offer great capacity and longevity.

 

[Mike81]

cloth

Definitely cloth bags. My newest vacuum cleaner is 17 years old and I use cloth bags in all of my vacuum cleaners. Reason is what have been said here before: Bag compartment stays clean, it doesn't lose suction and cloth is more durable material.
When I bought my Kärcher CV36/2 (SEBO BS36) upright it came with the paper bag. Once when I tryed to shahe it empty it actually was torn and now it uses cloth bag. Bag is for canister, but I adapted it to fit it. With the cyclone "bag saver" it is just a large filter. About 95% of the dust stays in the bag saver.
Later I will order geniune Sebo bags for it. But now I really don't need to.

 

[sebo_fan]

A few years ago when I bought my secondhand SEBO 360, I found out about synthetic disposable bags available for that series but they're not made by SEBO. They're actually ok and seem to do the job well.

 

[Mike81]

I found the fleece bags for my Kärcher, but price is insane. 42,16 € for ten bags is just way too much. Paper bags are half the price, but I don't wan't paper bags. But then again large ten fleece bags should last a very long time.
https://www.siivous.fi/yellowservic...er-polypussit-fleece-10-kplpkt-cv-362-462cw50

 

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